Kevin Barry

In the dark waiting room of the ferry terminal in the sketchy Spanish port of Algeciras, two aging Irishmen-- Maurice Hearne and Charlie Redmond, longtime partners in the lucrative and dangerous enterprise of smuggling drugs-- sit at night, none too patiently. It is October 23, 2018, and they are expecting Maurice's estranged daughter, Dilly, to either arrive on a boat coming from Tangier or depart on one heading there. Their conversations cause them to excavate their shared history of violence, romance, mutual betrayals and serial exiles. -- adapted from jacket

A Novel

Night Boat to Tangier

A searing, surreal novel that bleeds fantasy and reality--and Beatles fandom--from one of literature's most striking contemporary voices, author of the international sensation City of Bohane. It is 1978, and John Lennon has escaped New York City to try to find the island off the west coast of Ireland he bought nine years prior. Leaving behind domesticity, his approaching forties, his inability to create, and his memories of his parents, he sets off to find calm in the comfortable silence of isolation. But when he puts himself in the hands of a shape-shifting driver full of Irish charm and dark whimsy, what ensues can only be termed a magical mystery tour. Beatlebone is a tour de force of language and literary imagination that marries the most improbable element to the most striking effect.

Beatlebone

"Stories of rural Ireland in the classic mode: full of love (and sex), melancholy and magic"--

Stories

That Old Country Music

stories

There are little kingdoms

This award-winning story collection summons all the laughter, darkness and intensity of contemporary Irish life. A pair of fast girls court trouble as they cool their heels on a slow night in a small town. Lonesome hillwalkers take to the high reaches in pursuit of a saving embrace. A bewildered man steps off a country bus in search of his identity - and a stiff drink. These stories, filled with a grand sense of life's absurdity, form a remarkably surefooted collection that reads like a modern-day Dubliners.

There Are Little Kingdoms

Tancaya Gece Feribotu

An award-winning collection from the author of City of Bohane, which was hailed by Pete Hamill as "full of marvels" (The New York Times Book Review) * Short-listed for the Frank O'Connor Short Story Award * Winner of the Sunday Times Short Story Award * One of last year's most critically acclaimed books in the UK * A Guernica Best Book of the Year * A Library Journal "Best Indie Fiction of 2013" * Dark Lies the Island is a wickedly funny and hugely original collection of stories about misspent love and crimes gone horribly wrong. In the Sunday Times Short Story Award-winning "Beer Trip to Llandudno," a pack of middle-aged ale fanatics seeking the perfect pint find more than they bargained for. A pair of sinister old ladies prowl the countryside for a child to make their own. And a poet looking for inner calm buys an ancient inn on the west coast of Ireland but finds instead rancorous locals and catastrophic floodwaters. Kevin Barry's dazzling language, razor-sharp ear for the vernacular, and keen eye for the tragedies and comedies of daily life invest these tales with a startling vitality. Dark Lies the Island was short-listed for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, and as one of the most acclaimed collections in Europe in many years, it heralds the arrival of a new master of the short story.

Dark Lies the Island

Forty years in the future. The once-great city of Bohane on the west coast of Ireland is on its knees, infested by vice and split along tribal lines. There are the posh parts of town, but it is in the slums and backstreets of Smoketown, the tower blocks of the Northside Rises and the eerie bogs of Big Nothin' that the city really lives. For years, the city has been in the cool grip of Logan Hartnett, the dapper godfather of the Hartnett Fancy gang. But there's trouble in the air. They say his old nemesis is back in town; his trusted henchmen are getting ambitious; and his missus wants him to give it all up and go straight... And then there's his mother.

City of Bohane

A searing, surreal novel that blends fantasy and reality—and Beatles fandom—from one of literature’s most striking contemporary voices, author of the international sensation City of Bohane It is 1978, and John Lennon has escaped New York City to try to find the island off the west coast of Ireland he bought eleven years prior. Leaving behind domesticity, his approaching forties, his inability to create, and his memories of his parents, he sets off to calm his unquiet soul in the comfortable silence of isolation. But when he puts himself in the hands of a shape-shifting driver full of Irish charm and dark whimsy, what ensues can only be termed a magical mystery tour. Beatlebone is a tour de force of language and literary imagination that marries the most improbable elements to the most striking effect. It is a book that only Kevin Barry would attempt, let alone succeed in pulling off—a Hibernian high wire act of courage, nerve, and great beauty.

An award-winning collection from the author of City of Bohane, which was hailed by Pete Hamill as "full of marvels" (The New York Times Book Review) * Short-listed for the Frank O'Connor Short Story Award * Winner of the Sunday Times Short Story Award * One of last year's most critically acclaimed books in the UK * A Guernica Best Book of the Year * A Library Journal "Best Indie Fiction of 2013" * Dark Lies the Island is a wickedly funny and hugely original collection of stories about misspent love and crimes gone horribly wrong. In the Sunday Times Short Story Award–winning "Beer Trip to Llandudno," a pack of middle-aged ale fanatics seeking the perfect pint find more than they bargained for. A pair of sinister old ladies prowl the countryside for a child to make their own. And a poet looking for inner calm buys an ancient inn on the west coast of Ireland but finds instead rancorous locals and catastrophic floodwaters. Kevin Barry's dazzling language, razor-sharp ear for the vernacular, and keen eye for the tragedies and comedies of daily life invest these tales with a startling vitality. Dark Lies the Island was short-listed for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, and as one of the most acclaimed collections in Europe in many years, it heralds the arrival of a new master of the short story.

Град Бохейн

A collection of short stories of rural Ireland in the classic Irish mode: full of love (and sex), melancholy and magic, bedecked in some of the most gorgeous prose being written today—from the author of the wildly acclaimed Night Boat to Tangier. With three novels and two short story collections published, Kevin Barry has steadily established his stature as one of the finest writers not just in Ireland but in the English language. All of his prodigious gifts of language, character, and setting in these eleven exquisite stories transport the reader to an Ireland both timeless and recognizably modern. Shot through with dark humor and the uncanny power of the primal and unchanging Irish landscape, the stories in That Old Country Music represent some of the finest fiction being written today.

1978: John Lennon flieht aus New York, um auf sein Inselchen vor der irischen Westküste zu fahren, das er neun Jahre zuvor gekauft hat. Zurück lässt er Gedanken an den drohenden 40. Geburtstag, eine tiefe Schaffenskrise und die quälende Erinnerung an seine Eltern. Nur drei Tage in beruhigender Einsamkeit verbringen - mehr verlangt er gar nicht. Doch als er sich in die Hände eines mit viel irischem Charme und Schrulligkeit ausgestatteten Chauffeurs begibt, beginnt eine hindernisreiche Magical Mystery Tour. "Beatlebone" führt einen in jeder Hinsicht an die Grenzen - der westlichen Welt, der geistigen Gesundheit, des Ruhms, der Worte. Und, nicht zuletzt, an die des Romans, dorthin, wo er auf seine Doppelgängerin trifft, die Autobiographie. Denn diese faszinierende Erzählung aus dem Kopf eines der größten Popgiganten des 20. Jahrhunderts wird unversehens zu einer Meditation über den kreativen Prozess im allgemeinen, über die verblüffende Verbindung von Autor und Figur. Ihr Schöpfer, Kevin Barry, gilt vor allem wegen seiner überbordend lyrischen Sprache als der musikalische Dichterfürst Irlands und als eines seiner größten literarischen Talente.

La carriera letteraria di Kevin Barry nasce dalla congiunzione di un sogno e di un incubo, entrambi precoci. Il sogno era, racconta Barry, «diventare il più grande scrittore ebraico della mia generazione, un autore del livello di Roth o di Malamud, anzi meglio. Solo che per un ventenne lentigginoso di Cork, Irlanda, la faccenda si presentava un po' complicata». Quanto al­l'incubo, coincideva col pensum imposto dall'industria editoriale a qualsiasi debuttante: trovare una voce (e poi vivere di quella). Bene, dal momento che la sola idea «di sentirsi frastornare per i successivi trenta o quarant'anni da quella benedetta voce, sempre uguale» gli faceva accapponare la pelle, Barry ha tempestivamente optato per una via diversa: scrivere, con la stessa gioia selvaggia che il lettore, per osmosi, prova leggendole, le storie in cui si imbatteva più o meno tutti i giorni, fra le strade e i pub della sua Irlanda. Storie nere, quasi sempre, i cui personaggi non solo sbagliano, ma perseverano, diabolicamente, nell'errore. Un ragazzo esce da un carcere minorile dopo una condanna per spaccio di anfetamine, e ha un'idea luminosa per cominciare una nuova vita: spacciare anfetamine. Un suo coetaneo, sui tetti di Cork, pensa di baciare una sua amica talmente a lungo, e così tormentosamente, da disintegrare anche solo la possibilità di farlo. Due vecchiette battono la campagna in quello che sembra un incantevole road movie della terza età, finché non scopriamo che si tratta di due predatrici, impegnate in una battuta di caccia molto poco innocente. Si ride senza smettere mai, in questo libro: ma come ridono gli ospiti dello strano albergo sul fiordo di Killary, dove durante una pioggia torrenziale l'ac­qua ricopre il pavimento: e poi, poco a poco, comincia a salire. E a salire. E a salire.

Il fiordo di Killary

A Firsthand Account from a CDC Insider on the Link between Vaccines and Autism Vaccine Whistleblower is a gripping account of four legally recorded phone conversations between Dr. Brian Hooker, a scientist investigating autism and vaccine research, and Dr. William Thompson, a senior scientist in the vaccine safety division at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Thompson, who is still employed at the CDC under protection of the federal Whistleblower Protection Act, discloses a pattern of data manipulation, fraud, and corruption at the highest levels of the CDC, the federal agency in charge of protecting the health of Americans. Thompson states, “Senior people just do completely unethical, vile things and no one holds them accountable.” This book nullifies the government’s claims that “vaccines are safe and effective,” and reveals that the government rigged research to cover up the link between vaccines and autism. Scientific truth and the health of American children have been compromised to protect the vaccine program and the pharmaceutical industry. The financial cost of the CDC’s corruption is staggering. The human cost is incalculable. Vaccine Whistleblower provides context to the implications of Thompson’s revelations and directs the reader to political action.

Exposing Autism Research Fraud at the CDC

Vaccine Whistleblower

This book forms a conceptual account of the relationship between music and poetry in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

A Study in Aesthetics, Poetics and Poetic Practice from Collins to Coleridge

Language, Music, and the Sign

Nel porto spagnolo di Algeciras, Maurice e Charlie, due irlandesi sulla cinquantina, tengono d’occhio le navi per Tangeri. Stanno cercando Dilly, la figlia di uno dei due. Maurice e Charlie si conoscono fin dall’adolescenza: sono due ex trafficanti, hanno iniziato a spacciare da giovani, sono cresciuti, hanno fatto i soldi, hanno pestato i piedi ai rivali, si sono dovuti nascondere per non essere ammazzati, hanno attirato la sfortuna, sono andati in esilio innumerevoli volte, hanno bevuto come spugne, si sono strafatti di eroina, hanno amato e tradito la stessa donna, Cynthia, per la quale si sono accoltellati. Ormai tagliati fuori dai giri criminali, Maurice e Charlie, due presenze minacciose soltanto in apparenza, si rivelano per ciò che sono diventati: due ex criminali al verde, due balordi noti come macchiette all’interno del porto, che inseguono un fantasma che forse non è mai esistito se non nella loro immaginazione. Finalista al Man Booker Prize, incluso nella lista dei cinque migliori romanzi dell’anno per «The New York Times» e in testa alle classifiche irlandesi, L’ultima nave per Tangeri è un romanzo ossessionato dal mistero dell’amore, intriso di una bellezza malinconica e di un umorismo raro che conferma Kevin Barry come uno dei più talentuosi e premiati autori irlandesi contemporanei. «Il più incredibile e originale scrittore emerso da queste isole negli ultimi anni». Irvine Welsh «Provate a fare il nome di Flann O’Brien. Quello di James Joyce. Di Roddy Doyle. Di Patrick McCabe, di Wilde. E poi provate con Kevin Barry. Vedrete come il suo nome è perfetto, in mezzo agli altri. Kevin Barry è uno dei più originali, coraggiosi e divertenti scrittori mai usciti dall’Irlanda. Farei centinaia di chilometri a piedi per un suo nuovo libro, e tornerei indietro ridendo». Colum McCann «È un romanzo di Kevin Barry, quindi ci si aspetta che sia brillante. Tutto il resto è una brillante sorpresa». Roddy Doyle «Ho divorato L’ultima nave per Tangeri. Ho amato la sua verità potente, intrisa di compromesso e romanticismo. Le righe di Barry sono una vera meraviglia del mondo». Max Porter

L'ultima nave per Tangeri

Edited by award winning novelist and short story writer Kevin Barry, this volume will once again mix established names with previously unpublished authors, and will seek to offer fresh renditions to the Irish story - new angles, new approaches, new modes of attack. Published in 2011, New Irish Short Stories, edited by Joseph O'Connor, has sold over 10,000 copies to date and featured Kevin Barry's 'Beer Trip to Llandudno' - winner of the 2012 Sunday Times EFG Short Story Prize - as well as stories by William Trevor, Dermot Bolger and Roddy Doyle which went on to be Afternoon Readings on BBC Radio 4.

Kevin Barry

About

Books

Join the club